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Aaron Salhuana will be celebrating his first Halloween this year. So will Isaac Kessler. But neither is acting very excited about it.
Aaron and Isaac are both six months old.
"I'm very excited," said Aaron's mother, Elizabeth, who was working Thursday at Eye Q Opticians on Wilmot Road. "It's my son's first Halloween."
What to wear for Halloween can be a dilemma for many, and the decision includes whether to buy or to create the costume. This year, store-bought getups seem to be in favor.
Salhuana, who said she is "very into Halloween," said the first costume is very important, and she's decided to make Aaron a tiger for his Halloween inaugural. "It's so cute," she said of the costume she bought at a pop-up Halloween store on Central Park Avenue. "We went to all of them," she said of the stores. "There's so much competition."
At one of those stores Harrows Halloween Super Store at 111 Central Park Avenue blow-up lawn decorations are so popular they've already run out once. "We got another delivery, and we have new ones, some we didn't have before," said Matina Schulze.
Schulze said most people are buying complete costumes this year, rather than piecing things together at home and coming in for accessories. "For girls, there are a lot of animals," she said. "Cats, mice, devils..." And, she said, for the older devils, "the skimpier the better."
Little girls are leaning toward storybook characters, she said. Monster High is particularly popular, with characters that "are like Barbie dolls, but dead."
For boys, superheroes are in. "Captain America is the most popular, along with Batman. And Darth Vader."
Schulze said people seem to be spending a bit more this year, and not balking at the prices. Last year, she worked in the company's Pallisades store.
Little Isaac Kessler already has his costume, a dragon. "A friendly dragon," said his mom, Amy, while awaiting a coffee beverage Thursday at Starbucks on East Parkway. And while mom does not have her costume yet, Isaac may have two. His grandparents want to dress him up like Oliver Hardy of the famed early film comic duo Laurel and Hardy. "The have a little derby for him," Amy Kessler said.
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